After the siege of Troy and a decade-long voyage, a king is ready to come home to his kingdom and to his queen...
Your plaintive voice sung for my soul,
and lifted me to Ithaca's shore.
Can longing's echoes loudly toll,
inviting me to your front door,
like gods that decreed from a scroll?
I sailed to Troy and far beyond,
to go and fight an epic war,
In warfare, men formed pacts and bonds
to be their love and bright North Star.
I, too, took a youth, a brazen blonde,
with whom I shared many battle scars.
The gods, and obstacles marine,
no more removed us, but I loved
a boy, Penelope my Queen.
Please forgive us, beauteous dove,
and refrain from your jealous spleen,
and plead not Olympus above?
Poetry by Ngoc Nguyen
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Written on 2020-07-08 at 16:51
Tags Mythology Odysseus Penelope
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Odysseus in Contemplation of His Homecoming to Ithaca and Reunion with Queen Penelope
Far from this antique bay and moor,Your plaintive voice sung for my soul,
and lifted me to Ithaca's shore.
Can longing's echoes loudly toll,
inviting me to your front door,
like gods that decreed from a scroll?
I sailed to Troy and far beyond,
to go and fight an epic war,
In warfare, men formed pacts and bonds
to be their love and bright North Star.
I, too, took a youth, a brazen blonde,
with whom I shared many battle scars.
The gods, and obstacles marine,
no more removed us, but I loved
a boy, Penelope my Queen.
Please forgive us, beauteous dove,
and refrain from your jealous spleen,
and plead not Olympus above?
Poetry by Ngoc Nguyen
Read 447 times
Written on 2020-07-08 at 16:51
Tags Mythology Odysseus Penelope
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